cicadae

[4493] Formicae grata est formica, cicada cicadae, and birds of a feather will gather together.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

When cicadae, crickets, and frogs unite, their music may be heard at the distance of a quarter of a mile.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

In passing through some parts where a good shower of rain has fallen, the stridulous piercing notes of the cicadae are perfectly deafening; a drab-colored cricket joins the chorus with a sharp sound, which has as little modulation as the drone of a Scottish bagpipe.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Various cicadae and crickets, at the same time, keep up a ceaseless shrill cry, but which, softened by the distance, is not unpleasant.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Various cicadae and crickets, at the same time, keep up a ceaseless shrill cry, but which, softened by the distance, is not unpleasant.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The cicadae also lay their eggs in the canes on which husbandmen prop vines, perforating the canes; and also in the stalks of the squill.

The History of Animals 2002

Some insects copulate and the offspring are produced from animals of the same name, just as with the sanguinea; such are the locusts, cicadae, spiders, wasps, and ants.

On the Generation of Animals 2002

For ought you not then immediately to be beaten and trampled on, bidding me sing, just as if you were entertaining cicadae?

Clouds 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

Nunc cantu crebro rumpunt arbusta cicadae nunc varia in gelida sede lacerta latet.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

Then came a little singing afar off, as if from a distant convocation of cicadae, and before Henderson could guess what it meant, a cloud of dust was upon him, blinding and bewildering, pricking with sharp particles at eyes and nostrils.

A Mountain Woman Elia Wilkinson Peattie 1898